Thursday, September 22 to November 22
Reading Room, C.V Starr East Asian Library
300 Kent Hall
1140 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027
The C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University, in partnership with the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute will host “Cultural Revolution: Propaganda Art and Historical Memories” exhibition from September to November, 2016.
The two-month exhibition will showcase the Cultural Revolution collections of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, particularly posters, pamphlets, booklets, documents, and Mao badges and busts. The film screening will present “China – The Red Sons: Inside China during the Cultural Revolution in 1968”, a rare documentary film on Chinese people taking part in Cultural Revolution shot by Australian filmmaker Roger Whittaker during a trip to China in 1968 organized by the Australian Union of University Students. The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania.
For more information and registration visit: http://library.columbia.edu/